Latest Texas Headlines
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Update: Voice Recorder Found in Texas Plane Crash; Victims Identified
Jul 3 2019 // Federal investigators said that they have started analyzing the cockpit voice recorder from a small plane that struck a hangar after taking off from a suburban Dallas airport. Two crew members and eight passengers died...
Trident Marine, Signal Mutual Team Up on Waterfront Workers’ Comp in Texas, Louisiana
Jul 2 2019 // Trident Marine Managers (TMM), a specialty marine and offshore energy company and a part of Ryan Specialty Group (RSG), is partnering with Signal Mutual on a workers’ compensation program for waterfront employers...
Swingle Receives IIAT’s 2019 Drex Foreman Award
Jul 1 2019 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has named Frank Swingle Jr., founder and CEO of Swingle Collins & Associates in Dallas, the 2019 Drex Foreman Award winner at IIAT’s Insurcon in Grapevine on June...
Texas Windstorm Insurer: $4.2B Available for 2019 Hurricane Season
Jul 1 2019 // Texas’ insurer of last resort for properties in counties along the state’s coastline says it has $4.2 billion in available funds as this year’s hurricane season gets underway. That amount includes a $111...
Business Moves
Jul 1 2019 // East Paquin Insurance Agency, OceanPoint Insurance Agency Paquin Insurance Agency has joined OceanPoint Insurance Agency’s organization in Rhode Island. Paquin Agency Principal Rick Paquin has accepted a position as...
Ray Elected Chair of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas
Jun 28 2019 // Mark Ray of Borden Insurance Agency in Corpus Christi has been elected to serve as chair of the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) for 2019-20. Additionally, Gaylon Brown of TexCap Insurance in Dallas as was...
New Texas Law Addresses Surprise Medical Bills Received by Injured Workers
Jun 28 2019 // Texas lawmakers in the recent legislative session passed a bill addressing surprise medical bills injured employees have received after being treated at federal military facilities. Senate Bill 935 requires workers’...
Chemical Safety Board: Numerous Failures Led to 2014 Texas Dupont Plant Deaths
Jun 27 2019 // The U.S. Chemical Safety Board says the deaths of four workers at a chemical plant in Texas in 2014 were the result of a long list of safety failures in the plant’s operations. The CSB has released its final...
Texas Agency The Nitsche Group Relocates in Austin Area
Jun 27 2019 // Independent insurance agency, The Nitsche Group, headquartered in Giddings, Texas, has relocated its office in the Austin area. Previously at 12345 N. Lamar, Suite 190 in Austin, the office is now located at 893 North IH...
Signal Mutual, Trident to Offer Workers’ Comp for Marine Industry in Texas & Louisiana
Jun 25 2019 // Signal Mutual, a nationwide provider of Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act coverage, has partnered with Trident Marine Managers (TMM), a unit of Ryan Specialty Group to offer workers’ comp coverage...
Texas Windstorm Insurer Funded at $4.2 Billion for 2019 Hurricane Season
Jun 24 2019 // Texas’ insurer of last resort for properties in counties along the state’s coastline says it has $4.2 billion in available funds as this year’s hurricane season gets underway. By comparison, at the start...
Ghost of Harvey Looms Large as 2019 Hurricane Season Gets Underway
Jun 21 2019 // Compared with 2017, last year’s hurricane season was a relatively quiet one for the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana and Texas, with major U.S. storm systems such as Hurricanes Michael and Florence staying well to the...
Texas Calls for 2018 Catastrophe Data on Commercial Property, Business Insurance
Jun 20 2019 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has issued special data call to companies that wrote direct commercial property or businessowners insurance in Texas and to certain farm mutual insurance companies that wrote...
Houston Skies May Darken Again as Tank Farm Disaster-Site Teardown Begins
Jun 20 2019 // The company behind the four-day chemical blaze that cast a black plume over Houston earlier this year is preparing to destroy one of the tanks at the facility, raising the risk that the site could see “flash”...
Federal Officials Looking at Flood Issues in Review of Texas Derailment
Jun 19 2019 // Investigators will consider storm-related flooding to help determine what caused an April 24 freight train derailment in North Texas that sent 25 tanker cars off the tracks. The National Transportation Safety Board on...
Higginbotham in Texas Buys Commercial Insurance Unit of Extraco Banks
Jun 19 2019 // Extraco Banks has sold its commercial insurance operation to Fort Worth, Texas-based independent insurance broker, Higginbotham. Extraco Insurance is a group of five property/casualty insurance professionals operating in...
Company Cited, Fined $341K After Fatality at Texas Tire Retreading Facility
Jun 19 2019 // A Mississippi company faces more than $341,000 in penalties for failing to protect employees from serious safety hazards, a practice that led to a worker’s death at a plant in Texas, federal safety officials say. The...
After Lawmakers Abolish State Plumbing Licensing Board; Texas Governor Revives It
Jun 18 2019 // Heading off the prospect of everyone in Texas being able to call themselves plumbers, Gov. Greg Abbott extended the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners and its licensing law until 2021 via an executive order. The Texas...
Webb Joins Independent Insurance Agents of Texas as Advantage Markets Director
Jun 17 2019 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) has added Lisa Webb as director of IIAT Advantage Markets. Webb has more than 30 years of experience in personal and commercial lines sales, management, training and claims...
CoreLogic: Texas, Louisiana Among States Most at Risk for Storm Surge
Jun 17 2019 // Some 7.3 million U.S. homes with an estimated reconstruction cost of $1.8 trillion are at risk from storm surge, Irvine, California-based data analytics provider CoreLogic said in its 2019 Storm Surge Report, issued days...
